Codex VSCode extension stays stuck submitting Yes/No for permissions

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 6, 2026 by YoannD42 Closed Feb 6, 2026

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

0.4.71

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code 1.109.0

What platform is your computer?

MAC ARM64

What issue are you seeing?

Codex stays stuck "Thinking", awaiting for such confirmation, that I can not click

<img width="842" height="447" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0b9badb6-8143-4f10-bf61-ca761bce2765" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Nothing particular, I can click it, it will work 2-3 times, and then suddenly starts failing. It started failing this morning, maybe then due to 0.4.71

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

I see this when I click "Yes", in the codex extensions logs :

2026-02-06 12:52:17.285 [error] Error fetching vscode://codex/open-in-targets: Error: open-in-target not supported in extension
2026-02-06 12:52:17.349 [info] Received app server result: 32a12357-7105-4889-b216-3eb59275efab object(keys=2)
2026-02-06 12:52:17.394 [error] Request 9 not found

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